[Dataloss] 4,000 people at risk of ID theft, state says

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609160352

September 16, 2006

BY KIM NORRIS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Michigan Department of Community Health will offer identity theft 
protection to more than 4,000 current and former Michigan residents who 
have been participating in a scientific study because an apparent theft 
may have put personal information at risk.

A flash drive -- a portable storage device containing names, current 
addresses, telephone, Social Security numbers and birth dates of the 
people participating in the study -- has been missing from a secured floor 
in an MDCH building since Aug. 4 and is presumed to have been stolen, MDCH 
spokesman T.J. Bucholz said.

The missing data did not include any health information, medical records 
or laboratory information.

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